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JustMe

Member

Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

Gnome 3.12 startx unsuccessful on Intel graphics Asus N76V

Hi all,

I am trying to install gnome 3 on my laptop. At the moment I'm running awesome, but I want to give gnome 3 a try.

I had the same problems with gnome 3.10

I have dual graphics, so I installed the Intel driver to get awesome to work.

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT
650M] (rev a1)

Installed:

pacman -Qqn | grep xf86
libxxf86vm
xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-synaptics
xf86-video-intel
xf86vidmodeproto

My >>Xorg.0.log<< has some errors:

[  3318.297] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[  3318.297] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
        i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G,
        915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
        Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
        GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43

Any help is appreciated, but pleas dumb it down, I'm still a bit new with this.

Thanks!
-Me

Last edited by JustMe (2014-04-21 02:10:36)

cris9288

Member

Registered: 2013-01-07

Posts: 348

Re: Gnome 3.12 startx unsuccessful on Intel graphics Asus N76V

I believe vesa is just a fallback module that Xorg will use if no other drivers are present. That error just indicates that vesa isn't installed (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). What does you $HOME/.xinitrc look like?

FenrirAB

Member

Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 40

Re: Gnome 3.12 startx unsuccessful on Intel graphics Asus N76V

i had the same problem when i first fresh installed...
installing/re-installing xorg-server xorg-server-utils
THEN installing gnome-shell, gnome, gnome-extra did the trick for me

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JustMe

Member

Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: Gnome 3.12 startx unsuccessful on Intel graphics Asus N76V

Thanks for the replies.

I uninstalled xorg-server xorg-server-utils and in doing so, had to uninstall nvidia-utils (don't know what it's for but it made no difference) and reinstalled
I uninstalled gnome-shell gnome-extra and reinstalled. Pacman did say 'gnome-shell': duplicate candidate so I removed gnome from the list (I think they are the same thing)

My .xintitrc:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi


#WM=${1}
#case $WM in
#gnome)
#	exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
#	exec gnome-session
#	;;
#awesome)
#	exec awesome
#	;;
#*)
#	exec awesome
#	;;
#esac


#exec ck-lanch-session 
exec gnome-session


#exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

I have been trying to be able to switch between window managers but decided to comment it all out... I tried exec gnome-session and exec ck-lanch-session and also with gdm but it all dident work.

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Just in:

I just noticed that when I try to remove gdm I get:

(1/1) Removing gdm
error: command failed to execute correctly

Maybe that's part of the problem...

Thanks for all your help everyone!